Catching Up!

If you'd like to see what I'm up to these days, I can be found blogging with my sister Leah over at

wintergreenandthebee.com

The blog is a mix of fashion, food, DIY, quilting, and small business news as Leah and I share what we learn as we open a store together. 

Thank you to everyone who has stopped by here over the years!!

Currently Loving: Embroidered Book Covers

I am completely obsessed with these beautiful embroidered book covers from Penguin. These are at the top of my graduation gift wishlist!

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Emma by Jane Austen (I love her multicolored hair!)

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Graduation gift guide

In my family we give art as gifts for big events like graduation. It's a tradition that I've continued with Char (we exchanged prints for Valentine's day) and that means a lot to me. The photograph my dad got me for my high-school graduation is my absolute favorite thing in my apartment, and I love sharing the story of picking it out with friends who ask about it. There's something so meaningful about connecting events and the pieces that I look at everyday. So the top of my list for graduation is one of the beautiful paintings by Michael Carson, featured on the Jealous Curator. 

"In your face subtlety"

"Lean"

For those who are looking for something other than art, I've created a gift guide with everything under $200 (most are under $100). 

Wearables

Twig bobby pins, woodlandbelle

Seahorse studs, catbirdnyc

Happy bag, dooney and burk (via bleachblack) 

Speckled egg silk scarf, shabd

M&Co. Watch Bodoni, MoMA

Housewares 

Yarn and Needle Plates, poketo

Campfire candle, catbirdnyc

Poulain Tape Dispenser, anthropologie

Leather journal, julieboyles

For the graduates of the male persuasion

Tie bar, nikolai rose (via heartoflight)

Camera case, artemis leatherware

Hand printed rocks glasses, vital

Spring Tidings

It's rainy in New Haven, (may showers bring...may flowers?) and I've got a mountain of work to do but we had our senior dinner for Branford College last night and I'm feeling very nostalgic and not at all inclined to do said work. I've holed up in the library for the day, hoping that other people working will inspire me to do the same. For now, some pictures from the end of March.

Eggs blackstone from the pantry

Cinnamon roll pancakes from the pantry

Rainy library windows

Books for a paper on Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

Harkness Tower as we left the senior dinner last night

Etsy Shopping

Some new favorite etsy stores!

Kate Broughton: cards, buttons, and amazing nail transfer

A Merry Mishap: beautiful geometric jewelry

Golden Ponies: handmade leather goods in a rainbow of colors

Tapestry Vintage: designer vintage

Most found via tydepool

A little help for the guys

Since I am the resident shopping addict amongst my female friends they often ask me to help find specific things. This does not happen with my male friends. They just say: "find me new clothes" or "go shopping with me pleaseeee." According to Char spring clothes are more difficult to find. Something about sweaters are easy and shorts are hard.

So here, I went spring shopping for all of you boys. (Also for girlfriends who get bugged about this like I do.)

1. Shorts

$195, these are from rag&bone which means they're expensive, but will probably last forever 

$148, steven alan, I like dark wash shorts, they seem fancier somehow

2. Baseball hat

$44, vintage inspired Chicago Whale's hat, Ebbets Field 

3. Comfy t-shirt

$40, I love men in stripes, from jcrew

4. Khakis

$185, lightweight, simple, easy from needsupply

5. Summer sneakers

$88, summery espadrille type things, from needsupply

6. Lightweight button down

$188, this comes in all kinds of summery color combinations, steven alan

$195, this is the good kind of pink, from our legacy

I've also pinned more options over here!

Graduation clothes, revisited

Welp I bought a dress. Or rather, I bought three dresses but one is going back.

I bought this pretty pink dress from shopbop, but it's not as pretty in real life. Sad face. Returned. 

Leah voted for this dress in a different color at some point in this embarrassingly long process. Then a few days ago I was poking around reserve refinery29, which has some pretty amazing deals and I saw one for Kenny and a formerly silly expensive dress fell right in my budget. Bought, arrived, loved.

Today I found the (2nd) perfect dress. It is bright and fun, and I like the grosgrain ribbon belt because I am preppy at heart. I do not like how straight the model's hair is. It's giving me flashbacks to bat/bar mitzvah's. But I do like neon, yay neon! Also, what color shoes do you wear with a neon dress? A post for another day!

Since my father is probably reading this, I feel I need to justify my purchase of two dresses. Yale drags our graduation festivities out for one very long weekend. We have Commencement, college graduation, Senior dinners, parties, etc. all of which is fun and I'm excited for, but hence the need for multiple dresses.